Lot 135
  • 135

Isack van Ostade

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Isack van Ostade
  • A peasant family outside a hovel
  • Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk;
    bears pencil inscription, versoOstade

Provenance

C.E. Duits;
sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 6 November 2001 (purchased by the present owner)

Exhibited

Rotterdam, Kunsthal, European Master Drawings Unveiled, 2002, no. 59

Catalogue Note

As Dr. Bernhard Schnackenburg kindly confirmed at the time of the 2001 sale, this is an early work by Isack, probably executed before 1640.  Stylistically comparable drawings are in Berlin, Leiden and various private collections.1  Unlike his elder brother Adriaen, Isack van Ostade died very young, at the age of only twenty eight, and as a result his drawings are far rarer.  Indeed, substantial compositions like this hardly ever come on the market.   

1. B. Schnackenburg, Adriaen van Ostade, Isack van Ostade. Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, Hamburg 1981, nos. 405-411